Some practitioners believe he lived around the second century BCE and also wrote significant works on Ayurveda the ancient Indian system of medicine and Sanskrit grammar, making him something of a Renaissance man.
See also Decoding Sutra 3. One version relates that in order to teach yoga on earth, he fell from heaven in the form of a little snake, into the upturned plans a gesture known as anjali of his virgin mother, Gonika, herself a powerful yogini.
He was a great grammarian and his Mahabhashya or Great Commentary on Panini's grammar the first grammar written for any language was magisterial. It is still read and acknowledged today. In the Mahabhashya, he defined the rules of Sanskrit grammar and greatly enlarged its vocabulary. He gave Sanskrit a muscular power that made it a more precise, subtle, effective and artistic instrument capable of expressing any aspect whatever of human thought or existence.
And importantly, he is the founder of the system of yoga and author of Yoga Sutras, the ancient text that establishes the practice and philosophy of yoga.
The Yoga of Patanjali represents the climax of a long development of yogic technology. Of all the numerous schools that existed in the opening centuries of the Common Era, Patanjali's school was the one to become acknowledged as the authoritative system darshana of the Yoga tradition. There are countless parallels between Patanjali's Yoga and Buddhism. Patanjali gave the Yoga tradition its classical format, and hence his school is often referred to as Classical Yoga.
The first Yoga Sutra says: "Now the exposition of yoga," implying that there must be something leading up to yoga in the form of necessary developments of consciousness and personality.
The Yoga Sutras constitutes a practitioner's manual, and has long been cherished as the pristine expression of Raja Yoga, which is essentially concerned with mind control, meditation and self-study.
The focus is on the mind. The metapsychology of the Yoga Sutras bridges complex metaphysics and compelling ethics, creative transcendence and critical immanence, in an original, inspiring and penetrating style, whilst its aphoristic method leaves much unsaid, throwing aspirants back upon themselves with a powerful stimulus to self-testing and self-discovery.
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E-mail - yoga yogapoint. Beyond the Yoga Sutras , commentaries on two other notable works are attributed to an author named Patanjali as well. One of them is the Mahabhashya , dating from about the second century BCE, which is a commentary on an authoritative Sanskrit grammar text written by the Indian grammarian, Panini.
The other is the Carakavarttika , dating somewhere between the eighth and 10th centuries, which is a commentary on the Charaka Samhita, a large treatise on Ayurveda traditional Indian medicine. While modern scholars generally believe this timeline makes it impossible for it to have been the same Patanjali who compiled all three of these works, there are many who hold a more traditional view that a single Patanjali is indeed responsible for all three.
Some might think it ridiculous for anyone to believe that a single person could be the author of texts written possibly more than 1, years apart, however, Patanjali is also considered by many within the Hindu tradition to be a divine figure.
To he whose upper body has a human form, who holds a conch and a wheel, who is white and has a thousand heads, to that Patanjali, I offer obeisance. Of the three works, the Yoga Sutras have been especially influential on modern culture.
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